Tokyo meisho zue: Kudanzaka UshigabuchiTITLE TRANSLATION:Famous places in Tokyo: Ushigabuchi Kudanzaka. – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Tokyo meisho zue: Kudanzaka UshigabuchiTITLE TRANSLATION:Famous places in Tokyo: Ushigabuchi Kudanzaka., a historic print rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Tokyo meisho zue: Kudanzaka UshigabuchiTITLE TRANSLATION:Famous places in Tokyo: Ushigabuchi Kudanzaka.
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Ushigabuchi, a deep, curving stretch of the castle moat near the Kudanzaka slope, is the place this print shows, with the rise of the Kudan district set against the water. The 1870 date falls only two years after Edo was renamed Tokyo in 1868, when the old shogunal city was becoming the seat of the new Meiji government. The series is linked to the Hiroshige name, a studio line that continued after the famous Edo landscape master's death, and it records a city in transition, with older moats, slopes, and streets still shaping the view.
| Created / published | 1870 |
|---|---|
| Creator | Utagawa Hiroshige 1826?-1869 artist.Utagawa Hiroshige 1842?-1894 artist. |
| Medium | 1 print on hōsho paper : woodcut color ; 33.5 x 22.5 cm. (block) 36 x 24.5 cm. (sheet) |
| Notes | Title from item. Signature: Hiroshige fude. Seal date: Horse 3. From series entitled: Tōkyō meishō zue (Famous places in Tokyo). Annotations stamps etc. on verso of print: 17; LC2585; 47623a. Earlier control number: 4162-17. Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a). Forms part of: Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | City & town life--Japan--Tokyo--1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Japanese Fine Prints |
| Original scan | 3,577 × 4,472 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227298 |
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